Technology

It creates more problems than it solves. You would need an order of magnitude more processing power to play a game on it. Personally I would prefer 4K at a higher framerate. Even 1080 if it improves response.

Video in 8K are massive. You need better codecs to handle them, and they aren't that widely supported. Storage is more expensive than it was a decade ago.

Also, there is no content. Nobody wants to store and transmit such massive amounts of data over the internet.

HDMI cables will fail sooner at higher resolutions. That 5 year old cable will begin dropping out when you try it at 8k.

4K is barely worth the tradeoffs.

Fun fact; Here in Brazil, the cheaper tv models being sold are 720p, and a lot of people buy them and don't even know what video resolution is, neither they feel like missing something lol

I don't want 8K. I want my current 4K streaming to have less pixilation. I want my sound to be less compressed. Make them closer to Ultra BluRay disc quality before forcing 8K down our throats... unless doing that gives us better 4K overall.

Well the good thing is info storage cost and processing power tends to increase over time, so that’s one side of their argument handled; and things tend to keep progressing technologically over time, so I’d assume 8k would eventually replace 4k, and so on and so on; but the human eye does have a limit to what it can resolve- so at some point 2d images will probably just be as good as we need them to be

Yeah, no shit. The only possible use is gaming, and even PC owners have been upscaling for some time now.

The only case where you might even notice a difference by going to 8K resolution is high end VR, but that's no reason to have 8K in a TV.

Even 4K is overkill for most movies. The HDR is the selling point there, which I'll admit looks nice.

Who is out here filming at that resolution anyway? Cannot fathom the file sizes of anything made for these TVs

I haven't seen this mentioned but apart from 8K being expensive, requiring new production pipelines, unweildley for storage and bandwidth, unneeded, and not fixing g existing problems with 4K, it requires MASSIVE screens to reap benefits.

There are several similar posts, but suffice to say, 8K content is only perceived by average eyesight at living room distances when screens are OVER 100 inches in diameter at the bare minimum. That's 7 feet wide.

Source: https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship

Nobody will ever need an 8K TV, but 8K content would be nice on a (purely theoretical atm) pleasant to use head mounted display, one day

What's the point? Even if you pay extra for "4K" streaming, it's compressed to hell and the quality is no better than 1080p. What are you going to even watch on an 8K TV?

Will it make the 480x720 videos I watch on my 4K tv look twice as good?

I don't know if it changed, but when I started looking around to replace my set about 2 years ago, it was a nightmare of marketing "gotcha"s.

Some TVs were advertising 240fps, but only had 60fps panels with special tricks to double framerate twice or something silly. Other TVs offered 120fps, but only on one HDMI port. More TVs wouldn't work without internet. Even more had shoddy UIs that were confusing to navigate and did stuff like default to their own proprietary software showing Fox News on every boot (Samsung). I gave up when I found out that most of them had abysmal latency since they all had crappy software running that messed with color values for no reason. So I just went and bought the cheapest TV at a bargain overstock store. Days of shopping time wasted, and a customer lost.

If I were shown something that advertised with 8K at that point, I'd have laughed and said it was obviously a marketing lie like everything else I encountered.

2tb drives aren't as cheap as I would hope

Here I am still downloading the 720p versions of movies and not minding at all. If I want hyper resolution imagery I just go outside.